From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33120 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752385AbaHDOxY (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2014 10:53:24 -0400 Message-ID: <53DF9E62.2090007@suse.cz> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:53:22 +0200 From: Michal Marek MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kbuild: use $(srctree) to locate config headers from external modules References: <1406922443-22770-1-git-send-email-djpohly+linux@gmail.com> <53DF944C.2090207@suse.cz> <20140804144320.GA4379@chiri> In-Reply-To: <20140804144320.GA4379@chiri> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Devin J. Pohly" Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2014-08-04 16:43, Devin J. Pohly wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 04:10:20PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: >> include/generated is located in $(KBUILD_OUTPUT), which is different >> from $(srctree) when using O=. Can you post a sequence of commands that >> leads to the error you are seeing? >> >> Thanks, >> Michal > > Well, I was attempting to do something like this: > > $ make -C $KDIR M=$PWD modules > $ make -C $KDIR M=$PWD O=$pkgdir modules_install > > ... but I your statement just made the problem really obvious: I don't > need to be using O= at all in this case. Duh. Right, the directory you use in make -C ... M=$PWD when building an out of tree module is the directory you used in make O=... when building the kernel. Michal